(Fighting New Crown Pneumonia) China Times Review: Global Epidemic Relief
China News Agency, Beijing, April 1st: Global epidemic resistance begins with the "mouth battle" of WeChat groups
China News Agency reporter Xing Yi
The global epidemic resistance, which fell into the WeChat group, was sometimes a "war".
"Today, a person was deleted from the mobile phone address book and WeChat. We have known each other for decades and recognized each other's friends. Because of the fear of the epidemic development, we held different views and officially broke our faces. Once the happy time was once sealed, don't forget it ... "
Since the new crown pneumonia outbreak, discussions on social platforms have remained high. Debates on the origin of the virus, differences between Chinese and foreign prevention and control, and whether overseas Chinese should return to China are staged in various WeChat groups almost every day. What's more, as mentioned above, relatives, friends, classmates, and friends have risen to the "three views" disagreement, and the differences of opinion lead to "the boat of friendship turns and turns."
The length of home isolation has made the public addicted to their home addiction, and the time spent on screens has increased dramatically. Online social platforms have become a centralized outlet for the epidemic's attention and talk. The epidemic opinion field has been fermenting for more than two months. The information is complicated and changing rapidly, and it is normal for opinions to diverge. After all, each person has different sources of information, different levels of continuous follow-up and comprehensive understanding, and information asymmetry can lead to different opinions. At the same time, everyone's experiences, situations, and interpretation methods are different, and it is easy to diverge views.
The presentation and confrontation of different viewpoints is a good thing and should be encouraged. On the one hand, the current epidemic has to a certain extent confirmed the public's willingness to discuss public affairs to a certain extent; on the other hand, the more the so-called truth becomes clearer, the debate process itself is also conducive to the further clarification of facts, the promotion of supervision, and the institutional Improvement and improvement of governance.
But what needs to be alert is that in addition to expressing opinions and arguing passionately, the phenomenon of “sticking” to each other frequently occurs. The social platform itself is aggregating, and it is easy to gather people with the same ideas in the virtual space to form a closed loop, which makes people more willing to see and only see the content that they identify and believe in. These differences in the WeChat group will undoubtedly exacerbate this agglomeration characteristic of the social platform, which will virtually make the public opinion field less inclusive and understandable, and the space for the middle rational voice will also become narrow.
"Stones from other hills, can learn". It should be seen that in the huge field of public opinion, the sharing of information and the collision of opinions among social groups can provide us with various kinds of anti-epidemic information and learn from each other.
The small WeChat group is like a drop of water in the world, reflecting the realistic light and shadow of the global anti-epidemic.
The development of China's social platform for many years has attracted many well-known companies, institutions, celebrities and ordinary people from around the world. Along with the expansion of Chinese international exchanges, the more private group of friends and classmates also has voices from all over the world. Therefore, casual chat in a WeChat group can be a miniature global public opinion field. In these "global public opinion fields", exchanges, discussions, and even quarrels about the epidemic are just reflections of the real world. At the same time, the various cognitions and mentalities in social groups will also act as fan wings of butterflies, affecting the reality of the global epidemic.
In this era of globalization where everyone is interconnected, people should realize that the ripples of consensus reached by the circle of friends may be able to stir larger groups to resonate at the same frequency.
At present, humankind is facing an unprecedented public health crisis and a probable global economic recession. The complicated situation urgently requires all countries to work together to accelerate the situation of epidemic prevention. The first and foremost need to be resolved is to reduce and bridge the various tears of human society in the face of the virus as soon as possible. This obviously requires everyone's participation.
May wish to start by changing the chat methods of the social groups around you, and start by improving the community culture: seeing different perspectives with an open mind, respecting different opinions, fewer unreliable articles, and creating a rational and friendly group atmosphere; face Differences in social groups should leave more room for rational expression based on science and facts, and find consensus and a way out of the differences to work together to defeat the virus. (Finish)